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Hello and welcome to the second season of Scholastic Scrimmage here on WQLM PBS.

I'm your host, Glenn Holland.

The match will have two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

We'll get to know the students a little better at halftime.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage is a game that requires rapid recall of specific factual information and is not indicative of academic training.

Time for our first toss up.

What composer, who depicted the friends Nadir and Zurga in The Pearl Fishers included the "Toreador Song" and a "Habanera" in his opera Carmen?

[chime dings] LaBoeuf, Seth.

Bizet?

That is correct, George Bizet.

Your bonus, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value of X?

If two thirds of one-half X equals 50 given that X must be greater than 50?

[teammates whisper to each other] Do I have to answer?

GLENN: Yes, yes.

All right, 55.

No.

So X equals 150.

Toss up what British poet addressed a "still unravish'd bride of quietness," which delivers the message "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" in "Ode on a Grecian Urn?"

[horns sound] That was John Keats.

Toss up.

What town where an engine house filled with rebels was captured by Robert E. Lee, was the site of a federal arsenal raided in 1859 by John Brown?

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Harpers Ferry.

Correct.

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

And now your bonus.

What writer criticized the Soviet prison system in his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and in his non-fiction work, the Gulag Archipelago?

[teammates whispering] [horns sound] That was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Toss up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the probability that a fair coin flipped four times will show "heads" all four times?

[suspenseful music] [horns sound] That answer is 1 in 16.

Toss up.

What disease, which is unrelated to smallpox, had it's first U.S. case since 2013 in 2022, can cause paralysis and may be treated with an iron lung?

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Monkeypox?

No.

Fort LeBeouf?

[chime dings] Polio.

Yes.

Thank you Thatcher.

Your bonus.

What Noble gas which makes up about 1% of earth's atmosphere, is used with potassium-40 in a common radiometric dating technique?

Carbon?

GLENN: No, it's argon.

That'd be argon potassium dating technique.

Toss up.

What U.S. city, which is home to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Faneuil Hall and the Bunker Hill Monument, [chime dings] Boston.

Fort LeBeouf, Thatcher.

Boston.

Thank you, wait until I call upon you.

Sorry.

It's all right.

Bonus.

Jesus is "light of light" and "consubstantial with the Father" according to the namesake "creed" developed at what first-ever church council in AD 325.

[teammates whispering] Can I defer to Hamilton?

GLENN: I'm sorry?

Can I defer to Hamilton?

Yeah, sure.

Hamilton?

GLENN: He needs to give you the answer.

Okay.

GLENN: You answer for him.

Nicaea Right.

They first counseled Nicaea.

Very good.

Toss up.

What procedure often uses a buret, is stopped at an endpoint when an indicator changes color, and is - [chime dings] LaBoeuf, Seth.

Titration.

That's correct.

Your bonus.

English author Robert Graves wrote what 1934 historical novel, whose title character describes the reigns of Caligula and other Roman emperors?

You have to tell me.

What do you think?

Tiberius Tiberius.

GLENN: I'm sorry?

Tiberius.

No.

The novelist called I, Claudius.

Off by one or two.

Real close, real close.

Our toss up.

What personage, whose origin is debated in the Filioque controversy, descended on the apostles at Pentecost and forms the Trinity with God and Jesus?

[chime dings] Fort LaBoeuf, Seth.

The Holy Spirit.

That's correct, the Holy Spirit.

Your bonus.

In biology, what term refers to the process of determining the order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule or of amino acids in a protein?

[teammates whispering] We're gonna roll with nucleosynthesis, how about that?

That's sequencing is what I was looking for.

Toss up.

What economist, who stated that "in the long run we are all dead," argued for deficit spending in The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money?

[horns sound] That was John Maynard Keynes Toss up.

What landmark is on the Auyan-Tepui, lies on a tributary of the Orinoco in eastern Venezuela, and are the world's highest uninterrupted waterfalls?

[chime dings] LeBoeuf, Seth.

Angel Falls?

Correct, Angel Falls and here's your bonus.

What port city in the Donetsk Oblast was the site of a Russian siege that ended in May 2022 after Ukrainians in the Azovstal steel plant surrendered?

[teammates whispering] Mariupol.

Yes, Mariupol.

Very good.

And now we move on to our lightning round.

Cranberry called the toss.

So they have first choice of topics.

Your topics are numbers and Hannibal Barca.

Numbers.

GLENN: All right, numbers.

What positive integer is the closest to pi?

[chime dings] Three.

Right.

You don't have to buzz in.

The number of sides in a heptagon.

Seven Correct.

A divisor of all even numbers, but no odd number.

Two Correct.

The multiplicative identity?

Zero.

No.

It's one.

The number of degrees in a right angle?

90 Correct?

The largest perfect cube below 100?

64.

64, correct.

The next Fibonacci number after 21?

Pass The smallest perfect number?

[horns sound] Six.

I'm sorry?

Six?

That is correct.

Very good.

Now, For Fort LaBoeuf, your topic for the lightning round is Hamilcar Barca.

Answer the following questions about the ancient general, Hannibal.

Mountain range he crossed to invade Italy in 218 BC?

The Alps.

That's correct.

The large pachyderms he used cross those mountains?

Elephants?

Correct.

North African city for whom he was a general?

Carthridge Correct.

He lost the second of these wars?

Punic.

Correct.

He lost to this city in that war.

Rome.

Correct.

202 BC battle he lost to Scipio Africanus.

Pass.

He lost sight in one eye in the marshes of this river in Florence.

The Rubicon?

No, that's the Arno.

Used a double envelopment maneuver at this 216 BC battle.

Pass.

His father, also a general Hannibal Hamilcar.

Hamilcar Barca.

There, so with our lightning round concluded, we've moved back to our regular questioning.

Toss up.

What title character lives near the mouse trainer, Mr. Bobo and meets an "other mother" who has buttons for eyes.

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Caroline.

Caroline.

Correct.

Your bonus.

What colony was formed by the merger of upper and lower portions as recommended by the Durham Report in the years after the Patriots' war of 1837?

Ireland?

No, that was a province of Canada, upper Canada and lower Canada.

Toss up.

What organization, the plaintiff in a 1992 case against Robert Casey was founded by Margaret Sanger and provides reproductive health services?

[chime dings] Fort LeBeouf.

Seth.

Planned Parenthood.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

In 2021, the US government created the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary in what Great Lake?

Michigan That is correct.

Lake Michigan.

The site of 36 shipwrecks that we know of.

Toss up.

What holiday, which names a 1930 poem by TS Elliot, inspired by his conversion to Anglicanism is the day after Mardi Gras and the first day of Lent?

[chime dings] LeBeouf, Seth.

Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday, correct.

Here's your bonus.

What shape is the graph of the equation X squared plus Y squared equals R squared, where R is a constant?

The circle.

That's correct.

Toss up.

What Midwestern state, whose Supreme Court held in 2019 that women had the right to an abortion, upheld that ruling in an August 2022 referendum?

[chime dings] LeBeouf, Ivy.

Roe v. Wade?

No, I need the state.

Cranberry.

[horns sound] That state was Kansas.

Toss up.

What statesman, who declared "O tempora!

O mores!"

against Catiline and attacked Mark Antony in the Philippics, is considered a model Roman rhetorician?

[chime dings] LeBeouf, Hamilton.

Octavian?

No.

Cranberry.

[horn sounds] That is Marcus Tullius Cicero.

They named him after the garbanzo bean, apparently.

Toss up.

What film series in which Haddonfield resident Laurie Strode is played - [chime dings] Cranberry, Jordan.

Halloween.

That's correct.

Here's your bonus.

Terrence Powderly led what early American union that declined after the Haymarket Square bombing?

Boston Tea Party.

No, it's the Knights of Labor.

And now we're at halftime and this will give us an opportunity to talk to our students and find out a little bit about them.

Hi, my name is Ivy and my favorite hobby is horseback riding.

Hello, my name is Seth and my favorite hobby is reading.

Hi, my name's Thatcher, and my favorite hobby is history and docenting.

Hi, my name is Hamilton.

My favorite hobby is swimming.

My name is Jordan.

My favorite hobby is playing video games.

Hi, my name is Dane and my favorite hobby is playing sports.

Hi, my name is Kelsey.

My favorite hobby is running.

Hi, my name is Kayla and my favorite hobby is running.

And now for our first toss up after the half, What artwork, which shows a hollowed-out "Tree Man" and a pair of ears holding a knife in its hellish right panel, is a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch?

[horns sound] That is called the Garden of Earthly Delights.

Toss up.

What force names a hypothetical boson with spin 2, is caused by the curvature of spacetime in general relativity, and pulls objects towards the Earth?

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Gravity?

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What quantity, whose Bond type is about 0.3 for Earth, is the ratio of the amount of light reflected by a body to the amount of incident light on it?

Reflection?

No, it's albedo.

Toss up.

What character uses a poisoned dress to murder Glauce and escapes in a chariot of Helios in a Euripides play that depicts her abandonment by Jason?

[horns sound] That is Medea, a woman scorned.

Your toss up.

What brass instrument usually pitched in F can be stopped by putting one's hand in its bell, [chime dings] LaBoeuf, Seth.

French horn.

The French horn, correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Illinois governor ran with John Sparkman and Estes Kefauver in the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956 which he lost to Dwight Eisenhower?

Nixon.

I'm sorry?

Richard Milhous Nixon No, that's Adlai Stevenson.

Toss up.

What alkaline earth metal replaces calcium in limestone to form dolomite, has a milky white hydroxide, and is found with sulfate in Epsom salts?

[chime dings] LeBeouf, Seth.

Magnesium.

Magnesium.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What chemistry law named for a Frenchman holds that for a gas at constant pressure, the ratio of its volume to absolute temperature is constant?

[teammates whispering] How about Bouvier?

We'll go with that.

That's Charles' law in fact.

Toss up.

What man who gave the "Blood and Iron" speech, ordered the anti-Catholic Kulturkampf after uniting Germany as the originally Prussian - LaBoeuf, Seth.

Otto Von Bismarck?

Correct.

Otto Von Bismarck.

Your bonus.

What four letter word denotes a typographic measurement of about 4.21 millimeters and a disorder in which people eat non-food items such as soil.

I believe that was from Thatcher.

Pica Pica.

Correct.

Toss up.

What TV show which generated the spin-offs Private Practice and - [chime dings] Cranberry, Kelsey.

Grey' Anatomy.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Polish-British anthropologist studied the Trobriand Islanders in his 1922 book Argonauts of the Western Pacific?

Ernest Hemingway.

No, that's Bronislaw Malinowski.

Toss up.

What character tells the sun to "gallop apace" so night comes faster, muses about "a rose by any other name" and - in a Shakespeare play - marries Romeo?

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane Juliet.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What mountain which George Bell called, "a savage mountain that tries to kill you," is the second-highest mountain in the world?

Kilimanjaro?

Your answers Kilimanjaro?

Yes.

GLENN: No, it's K2.

Toss up.

What quantity is equal for each branch of a parallel circuit, is stepped up or down by a transformer, and equals current times resistance by Ohms law?

[chime dings] LaBoeuf, Seth.

Amperage.

No, Cranberry?

[chime dings] Dane.

Voltage.

Voltage is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Frankish general and mayor of the palace defeated Muslim forces at the Battle of Tours in AD 732.

The Pope?

No, that was Charles Martel also known as Charles the Hammer.

And now it is time for our second lightning round.

And this time Fort LeBeouf has the opportunity to choose the topics.

And these are the two topics.

Dutch derived words and double D. Let's do Dutch derived.

All right, Dutch derived words, give these English words derived from Dutch.

To transport illicit goods.

Smuggle.

Correct.

A supervisor or the leader of a political machine.

Honcho.

No, that's boss.

To stand around aimlessly Linger.

No, loiter.

To prepare food in a brine, especially a cucumber.

Pickle.

Correct.

A shoulder-mounted rocket launcher.

Bazooka.

Correct.

A leave of absence often for soldiers or government workers.

Pass A leisure excursion by boat.

Cruise Correct.

To stop flow by filling an open hole.

Block.

I'm sorry?

Plug, plug, plug.

Sorry.

Yes.

A breakfast food cooked on a latticed iron.

Waffle.

Correct.

A salad made with shredded cabbage.

Coleslaw.

Right.

That was after the timer.

So we go to Cranberry with the category, Double D. Give these people, places or things whose names contain a double D. Aircraft or ship part used to control yaw.

Pass Capital of Ethiopia.

Pass 2016 Film about black women who were NASA mathematicians.

Hidden figures Correct.

George Elliot Novel about Dorothea Brooke.

Pass Religion with Mahayana and Theravada branches.

Buddhism.

Correct.

Musical in which Tevye sings "If I Were a Rich Man."

Fiddler on the roof.

Correct.

Margaret Atwood novel that follows Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.

Pass.

That is Maddadum.

Spelled M A D D A D D D M. So now we continue to our regular play with a toss up.

What title, given to Edward of Carnarvon in 1301 and given in September 2022 to Prince William, is held by the air apparent to the British throne?

[chime dings] Fort LeBeouf, Seth.

Prince of Wales.

Prince of Wales, correct.

Bonus.

In what poem by Edgar Allen Poe is the title girl killed by a wind that came out of a cloud by night?

[teammates whispering] Lenore.

No, it's Annabel Lee.

Toss up.

What type of star will the sun become in about 5 billion years after it runs out of hydrogen in its core, causing its surface to cool and swell up?

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Red giant.

A red giant, correct.

Here's your bonus.

What planet has rings named after Urbain Le Verrier and Johann Galle, both of whom contributed to its discovery in 1846?

Saturn?

No, that's Neptune.

Toss up.

What play in which a former resident of Belle Reve moves in with Stanley Kowalaski, is about - [chime dings] LeBeouf, Seth.

A Street Car Named Desire.

Correct.

Your bonus.

The Chisos Mountains are entirely within what national park, which is on the U.S. border with Mexico and is named for a feature of the Rio Grande?

[teammates whispering] Green Bend.

I'm sorry?

Green Bend.

It's Big Bend.

You said green or big?

I'm sorry.

They said green.

We said green, we'll be honest here about that.

Okay, thank you.

We appreciate that.

Yeah.

I thought so.

Your next toss up.

What South Pacific Island, home to Henderson Field, is the largest of the Solomon Islands - [chime dings] LeBeouf, Hamilton.

Guadalcanal.

Guadalcanal, correct.

Your bonus.

What explorer, who was employed by King Leopold II and set up trading posts on the Congo River, asked a missing missionary, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?"

[Thatcher whispering] [horns sound] That was Henry Morton Stanley.

Toss up.

What computing subfield pioneered by David Deutsch is based on principles such as entanglement and superposition from a namesake subfield of physics?

[chime dings] Cranberry, Dane.

Quantum.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Renaissance painter used the technique of chiaroscuro, or high contrast, in paintings such as The Calling of Saint Matthew?

[teammates whispering] [horns sound] That is Caravaggio.

[ringing] And that is the end of our contest.

Cranberry, Your score was 175.

Good job during the matchup and good luck with the rest of the school year.

Congratulations to Fort LaBoeuf with a score of 280.

You'll be moving on to the next level of competition.

I'm Glenn Holland.

Thank you for joining us on Scholastic Scrimmage and please join us again as the competition continues.

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